Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson lashed out during an appearance on CNN, calling President Donald Trump an “unstable human being.”
The Democrat mayor responded after the president vowed to deploy National Guard troops to restore order in crime-ridden cities, particularly Chicago.
“This president is an unstable human being, and it’s right for this moment to check him,” Johnson told host Wolf Blitzer.
“And we’re calling on Congress to do its job.”
He responded after watching a clip of Trump’s announcement that the Guard would be “going into Chicago very soon.”
Johnson claimed the president’s remarks were “appalling” and insisted that troops have no business being deployed domestically.
“There’s no way that anyone in this country should be okay with armed militarized troops being sent to cities,” Johnson said.
“These individuals, these brave women and men who signed up to serve and protect this country, they do not do it with being deployed against American citizens and residents in mind.
“This is not only appalling, but this is, quite frankly, an egregious attempt to undermine the sanctity of our democracy.”
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Federal Operation Targets Venezuelan Gang
The mayor’s outburst came just as federal agents carried out a massive immigration enforcement operation in Chicago against suspected Tren de Aragua gang members.
The violent Venezuelan cartel network has spread rapidly into U.S. cities after the gang’s members flooded the country illegally under the open border policies of the Biden administration.
Nearly 300 agents from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol executed the raid in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, targeting six suspects tied to the gang.
Helicopter footage showed agents rappelling snipers onto the roof of an apartment building as teams stormed the property.
Authorities confirmed that 24 people were taken into custody during the operation.
The crackdown followed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s announcement a day earlier that the Department of Homeland Security was requesting the deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois.
Trump’s Law-and-Order Push
The Trump administration has increasingly turned to the National Guard to back up federal law enforcement in cities plagued by crime and illegal immigration.
Guard units have already been deployed to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to assist with crime suppression and deportation operations.
Trump has repeatedly signaled that Democrat-run cities failing to enforce the law would face federal intervention to protect citizens and dismantle criminal networks.
Johnson, however, continues to push back, even as Chicago remains one of the nation’s most violent cities, with rising crime, gang infiltration, and now the presence of international cartels.
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